Pakistani Law Minister Zahid Hamid on Monday resigned from his office after a three week long protest against the changed wording of an electoral oath. The main opposition group protesting the change, Tehreek-e-Labaik , were upset over the replacement of “I solemnly swear” with “I believe” in reference to recognizing Mohammad as Islam’s last prophet [...]
A three-judge panel of the Bangladesh High Court on Monday upheld 139 death sentences and 146 life imprisonments relating to the 2009 mutiny that resulted in the death of 74 people including 54 senior government or military officials. Most of the defendants were soldiers and members of the paramilitary boarder security force Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from African-American attorney Carlos Moore who sought to have the Mississippi state flag’s Confederate battle emblem “declared an unconstitutional relic of slavery.” Moore filed suit against Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant in February, 2016, arguing that the current official state flag’s confederate emblem “encourages or [...]
The US Supreme Court stated on Monday that it would not review a lawsuit over a drone strike in Yemen that killed five people. Earlier this year, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit by the families of two Yemeni men allegedly killed by a US drone strike in [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied review of two challenges to state gun restrictions backed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) . The first was a challenge to Maryland’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines, and the second was a challenge to Florida’s ban on the open carrying of guns in public. In [...]
The High Court of Zimbabwe ruled Saturday that the military takeover that ousted ex-president Robert Mugabe was constitutional and not considered a coup. Last week the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) demanded the resignation of 93-year-old Mugabe when he dismissed former vice president and now current President Emmerson Mnangagwa in an apparent attempt [...]
Former chief of staff Leandra English filed a suit on Sunday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Trump administration over the currently vacant director position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) , to which US President Donald Trump seeks to name budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting director. [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: Former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes committed during the Bosnian conflict from 1992-1996. Venezuelan Supreme Court justices currently in exile have filed a complaint with [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed House No. Speaking in a cabinet meeting on Monday US President Donald Trump announced that the US is re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism nine years after it was removed from the list. Trump stated, “Today the United [...]
The US District Court for the Western District of Texas struck down as unconstitutional Texas SB 8 , which effectively banned the country’s most commonly used procedure of second trimester abortion known as “dilation and evacuation.” (D&E). Referring to earlier Supreme Court decisions in Gonzales v. Carhart and Stenberg v. Carhart, the court ruled that [...]
